CLAYTON, Mo. -- A judge sentenced a Missouri woman to consecutive life prison terms for sexually assaulting her infant daughter along with a Californi...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 03.08.2012
A Florida mother has been jailed in Georgia, accused of prostituting her 6-year-old daughter to support herself and her drug habit. Police in Colum...
AP | Posted 04.30.2012
TROY, Ohio -- An adoptive father in western Ohio has been accused of raping three children and allowing other men to have sex with one of them, allega...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 11.09.2011
A 24-year-old Ohio woman charged with raping her 10-month-old son and sharing the videotaped assault with her boyfriend is being held behind bars toni...
Posted 08.15.2011
Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., announced Tuesday afternoon that his office had filed charges against 26 individuals related to the p...
AP | FRANK JORDANS and BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 05.25.2011
GSTAAD, Switzerland — In a stunning ruling, Roman Polanski was declared a free man on Monday – no longer confined to house arrest in his A...
Herald News | Posted 05.25.2011
An alleged child rapist's plot to wipe out his teenage victim and the cops who put him in jail was captured on a secret audio tape, police said Thursd...
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
In another story from Arizona, but one that's attracting less attention than that state's check your documents anti-immigration law, a nun in Phoenix ...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011
Take a walk for ten years in Rea Dol's shoes and you might learn something about the imperialist attitude of NGOs in Haiti. "They would not help me before the quake. Why would I bother to ask them now?"
Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011
In Ethiopia, 69 per cent of marriages begin with the triple-whammy of abduction, rape, and a forced signature. These stories have been sealed away for millennia, behind masks of pain and repression.
The New York Review of Books | Sue M. Halpern | Posted 05.25.2011
Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence Sue Halpern The New York Review of Books Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by N...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...
Trish Kinney | Posted 11.17.2011
Choosing well is not always easy. And there is enormous pressure by society to choose a certain way, especially where fantastically complex family relationships are concerned.
Inter Press Service | Posted 05.25.2011
By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service WASHINGTON, Jul 29 (IPS) - The strategy of the major U.S. and British military offensive in Afghanista...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
With the changing nature of armed conflict, the impact of war on children and young people has become more brutal than ever.
News24 | Posted 05.25.2011
One child is raped in South Africa every three minutes, a report by trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday. ...
Washington Post | Robert Barnes | Posted 05.25.2011
The Supreme Court today declined to revisit its June decision that it is unconstitutional to impose the death penalty on child rapists, although two j...
Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011
There is an inner voice in my head that can't stop screaming! I've heard it since last week when the US Supreme Court declared the rape of a child under 12 should not be punished by death. That, a majority of the court ruled, is not a "proportional punishment."
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 11.17.2011
Last Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy s...
Doug Kendall | Posted 05.25.2011
The Obama campaign has promised to play offense this fall. On the Supreme Court, they need to step up to the plate.
AP | Posted 05.02.2012